Thread: Time for a new lawnmower!

Originally Posted by 350RRC

I bought the mulching version of one of these a couple of months ago. Was prepared to pay up to 7 - 800 but couldn't justify it when I saw them. Paid $380 from a mower dealer, which I thought was very cheap........... $250 is a joke.

Quality appears fine from the outside, time will tell with the internals. Most important thing........... like a real Honda it starts first go.

cheers, DL

I bought one of these cheap ones too and I find the engine to be excellent
Its only been used for 12 Months but it always starts and runs fine.

Originally Posted by lokka

Buy another Rover with the suzuki 2 stroke engin best mower ever made they are set up like a 4 stroke with a govener and increase power on load demand my mate who mows for a living has honda's and hes used my rover and rekons its as good but i think it has more power than the honda and its more economical to run

I've got one of these as well, runs great, but the catcher door/flap thing is rusted out, need a new bit, other than that it's great.

I worked on mowers for the first 15 years of my life as a mechanic. Worked in the hire industry for 9 of those years and we used Victa 2 strokes all that time.

Most reliable mower I saw in that time was the rover/suzuki 2 stroke, lasted forever and was cheap to fix if anything went wrong. After that it would be the Kubota self propelled, although if something went wrong it was very exy to fix.
After those 2 the Honda and the Victa 2 stroke, can't kill a victa and if it breaks thay are real easy to fix and cheap, hence why we used them in the hire fleet. Only two of these are still in production, the Honda and the Victa.

looking at the Rover website, looks like they only offer their own motors or B&S motors now

also looks like price might be a bit of a consideration now as well, so the Honda's might be out.
But, these Victa's look nice, and on paper sound similar anyway.

Anyone had experience with the current Victa 2-strokes?
http://www.oakleighmowerpower.com.au...ail.asp?id=465

Or the same chassis, with a Honda 4-stroke. Allthough it's the "Domestic" motor, doesn't have the cast-iron bore.
http://www.oakleighmowerpower.com.au...ail.asp?id=467

I spent about $900 on a honda a couple of years ago...

Love it ... turned a really hated job into something I can now just tolerate

Starts easy, even Annette starts it and mows and chews through the "pasture" I grow here without getting bogged down like the thing I had before. Money well spent in my book.

I actually hired the exact mower from one of the local hire places to try out before I bought it ... was easy to find one to hire, they all have them around here ... so do the commercial mowing blokes, just have a look in the trailer as they go past.

Very happy with mine ... would love the 4 stroke brushcutter too ... if I could pay for one.

Stevo

dunno about you guys, but i picked up a victa lawnkeeper with a 3.5HP B&S tonight off one of the outlaws for a bottle of rum.... he'd got the tom tits with it after a circlip went AWOL from one of the wheels and the catcher hatch spring failed..... 18 month old mower for $31.....

and to think i spent ~$700 or so on my stihl brushcutter last year.....

tho that said, my last mower was an ancient victa 2 stroke that lasted through 5 years of abuse till the carby cracked.....

The B&S motors must be fed with SAE30 oil only. The Hondas seem to take multigrade ok - I bought a self propelled Honda third hand off ebay = so far so good. Its coming up to Christmas so I might change to oil.

I currently have a Masport and if I had to get another mower tomorrow I would go the Honda. Masport is fine, has dropped a bit of power from new. It was impossible to stall it in the long grass, now you need to watch how quickly you feed it into the long grass. I think it is a 6.5 or 6 hp, I could never go back to 3.5hp.